Scott wrote:
>
> Yes, that says floppy craziness.
>
> I'm a student and I installed Database 10g Enterprise on Windows Server
> 2003. Install went fine, but soon thereafer I noticed the floppy drive was
> seeking every 30 seconds or so, for no reason that I can account and there
> is no disk in the drive. This "server" runs nothing else right now except
> rarely file serve a couple folders to my home network.
>
> I thought, whaaaa? Surely this doesn't have anything to do with Oracle,
> despite the coincidence. Eventually, however, I ran out of options and
> unistalled oracle and, you guessed it, the floppy drive quit seeking.
>
> What in the world could be causing this?
As a guess, ASM is looking for drives which could be candidates for
encapsulation and thinks the floppy is one of them..
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